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Robert Lyman was born in New Zealand in January 1963 and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia. He was commissioned into the Light Infantry from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England in April 1982, and was an officer in the British Army for twenty years.
He has a First Class Honours degree in History from the University of York; Masters degrees in Strategic Studies (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), War Studies (King’s College, London) and Military Studies (Cranfield). He is a graduate of the Joint Services Command and Staff College.
Robert Lyman is a respected military history specialist and lives in Berkshire, England. He is represented by Charlie Viney of The Viney Agency.
Paper:
The Possibilities for ‘Humanitarian War' in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Strategic and Combat Services Institute (SCSI), 1997.
Books:
The Longest Siege: Tobruk and the Battle for Africa, 1941
Pan Macmillan, 2009.
Slim, Master of War, Constable and Robinson, 2004/5.
Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad, Osprey Publishing, 2006.
First Victory, Britain’s Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941 Constable and Robinson, 2006.
The Generals: From Defeat to Victory Leadership in Asia 1941-45
Constable and Robinson, 2008.
Forthcoming books:
The Turning Point: Imphal, Kohima and the Battle for India
Macmillan, publication 2010.
Kohima, The Battle that Saved India
Osprey, for publication 2010.
Chapter:
The Challenges of High Command: The British Experience Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Forward to:
David Rooney’s Stilwell The Patriot, Greenhill Books, 2005.
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